被災３県の人口減対策推進　水産業、販路拡大を支援―土屋復興相

　土屋品子復興相は１０日のＮＨＫ番組で、東日本大震災の発生から１３年を迎え、「被災３県は、全国の県と比べて全体的に人口減少の幅が大きい」と指摘し、対策を進める考えを示した。「ふるさとに帰りたい人だけではなく、移住者、定住者をどう増やすか、魅力あるまちづくりをどうするかは非常に大きな課題だ」との認識を示した。
　また土屋氏は、被災３県に関し「中核産業は水産業、水産加工業だ」と説明。「販路拡大などが必要なので、しっかりと応援していきたい」と語った。（2024/03/10-12:11）

Japanese reconstruction minister Shinako Tsuchiya on Sunday stressed the government's intention to promote measures to increase populations in three northeastern prefectures hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
   The three--Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima--are seeing larger population declines compared with other prefectures in Japan, she said in a television program.
   Not only encouraging evacuated residents to return to their hometowns in the prefectures but also increasing the number of people moving to the areas are "a very important challenge" along with measures to make communities in the prefectures attractive, Tsuchiya said.
   Japan is set to mark on Monday the 13th anniversary of the March 11, 2011, powerful earthquake and tsunami, which mainly struck the Tohoku northeastern region. The disaster led to a severe accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station.
   "It is important to expand sales channels" for the three prefectures' core fisheries and fisheries-processing industries, Tsuchiya said. "We will provide full-fledged support."